NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Digitization Tutorial

 

Avi Goldfarb and Shane Greenstein, Organizers

 

March 1 and 2, 2017

 

SIEPR

366 Galvez Street

Stanford University

Stanford, CA

 

Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

 

SCHEDULE

 

Wednesday, March 1:

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

1:00 pm

Introduction to Digitization Workshop – Avi Goldfarb and Shane Greenstein

 

 

2:00 pm

First session - Avi Goldfarb: Digital Economics (reading list) (slides)

3:30 pm

Break

 

4:00 pm

Second session - Mike Luca: Reputation Systems (reading list) (slides)

5:30 pm

Adjourn

 

6:00 pm

Group Dinner - Indo Restaurant, 3295 El Camino Real, Palo Alto

 

Thursday, March 2

 

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

9:00 am

Recap of Day 1

9:15 am

Third session - Susan Athey, Search and Information on the Internet

(reading list) (slides)

 

10:45 am

Break

 

11:15 am

Fourth session – Shane Greenstein, The Internet and Geography (reading list) (additional papers 1, 2, 3) (slides)

12:45 pm

Lunch

 

1:45 pm

Student Workshop-meet in groups

 

3:30 pm

Break

 

4:00 pm

The market for digitization economists - Avi Goldfarb, Shane Greenstein, and Mike Luca (slides)
 

5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

6:00 pm

Group Dinner - MacArthur Park Restaurant, 27 University Avenue Palo Alto